This page is designed to help you understand what the numbers, letters and symbols in your final results email mean. There is also information about Exceptional Circumstances, Appeals and Administrative Mark Checks.

Assessments with an asterisk(*)

If an asterisk(*) shows against an assessment this means that you have/had a confirmed deferral in place for that assessment. 

Course Grades

Grades show against courses.  You can interpret them using the list below:

D = Distinction [70-100%]
M = Merit [60-69%]
P = Pass [50-59%]
F = Fail [(x+1)-49%]
FB = Bad Fail [0 - x]
NA = At least one component of assessment has been deferred
AB = Absent from all components of assessment
I = Incomplete (i.e. you were absent from at least one component of assessment)

You can check the bad fail marks for your courses (i.e. establish what x is).

Marks for all assessments, including RDAP1 (January) and RDAP2 (May/June), will show. You'll only see one overall course mark and grade for each academic year.

If you took an assessment during one of the RDAP periods then this mark will appear in addition to the mark from the previous academic year. The course will appear twice - once in the year you had the teaching and again in the year where you took the RDAP1/RDAP2 assessment. 

• If you deferred a piece of coursework from the 2022/23 academic year to RDAP1 in January 2024 then an asterisk (*) will show for that assessment in 2022/23 and the course will be labelled as deferred for that year. The course will appear again for 2023/4 with a mark for the assessment from January, labelled as RDAP1. The RDAP1 mark will have been used to generate a mark for the course overall. 
• If you achieved a mark of 29 in an exam in June 2023 and thus failed the course overall you would be due to resit in RDAP1 in January 2024, but you then deferred to RDAP2 in May/June 2024, achieving a mark of 70. The mark of 29 will appear against the assessment in 2022/23 and the course will show an overall fail for that year. An asterisk (*) will appear against the first instance of the assessment (labelled RDAP1) in 2023/4. The mark of 70 will appear for the second instance of the assessment (labelled as RDAP2). The mark of 70 will have been used in calculating your overall grade for the course (but remember, it will have been capped).

Exceptional Circumstances

If you have submitted Exceptional Circumstances, you should have received, or will shortly receive an email from your Department or the Student Regulations Team informing you of the Exam Board’s Decision.

Challenging your results 

We are confident that our assessment process is robust and that the results we have sent you will be accurate. However, in certain circumstances there are routes for you to check and/or appeal your results. Visit challenging results for more information. The deadline for both processes is 23:59 (London Time) on Tuesday 3 December 2024.

Want to know more about regulations, classification or progression?

There is lots of information, including links to the relevant regulations on the understanding results page.

Have things not gone to plan?

If things don't go to plan, and you haven't received the results you were hoping for, there is lots of support available; check our advice and support page to find out what you can do next.